Shift Into Freedom with Teacher, Psychotherapist Loch Kelly

Mitchell’s guest this evening is meditation teacher, psychotherapist, author and founder of the Open-Hearted Institute, Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW. Purchase Loch’s books & CD’s here. Loch spent 10 years establishing homeless shelters and community lunch programs and working in a community mental health clinic in Brooklyn, New York. As a licensed psychotherapist, Loch has been teaching seminars, supervising clinicians and practicing awareness psychotherapy in NYC for 25 years. He served on the New York Insight Teachers Council and was authorized to teach Sutra Mahamudra by Mingyur Rinpoche and invited to join with Adyashanti to teach direct realization of your true nature. Loch has collaborated with neuroscientists at Yale, UPenn and NYU in the study of awareness training can enhance compassion and well-being. Loch teaches in a non-sectarian human being lineage in an adult education style based in the earliest non-dual wisdom traditions, modern science and psychotherapy. He is the founder of the non-profit Open-Hearted Awareness Institute.   Mitchell and Loch originally met at a Dr. Stan Groff, Holotropic Breath Workshop in 998 after Mitchell interviewed Stan for A Better World and have been friends ever since.  Loch was a guest on A Better World Radio in 2008 (http://abetterworld.tv/a-better-world-loch-kelly-1-28-08)